reanimationn.
/ˌriːanᵻˈmeɪʃn/, /riːˌanᵻˈmeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌriˌænəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1.
a. The fact or process of returning to life.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [noun]
aristc885
risinga1200
uprisingc1250
upristc1250
arisnessa1300
uprisea1300
arising1340
uparising1340
again-risingc1384
uprasa1400
upraisingc1400
resuscitation?a1450
revive1553
gain-risinga1557
revivification1561
restorement1571
apotheosis1595
revival1608
reviviscencea1631
reanimation1633
second birth1643
reviviction1646
anastasis1647
reviviscency1654
rise1738
anabiosis1890
1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 85 Nor hath [the body] aptitude in it selfe to reanimation.
1816 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 41 502 Canonized on the express ground of a miraculous reanimation.
1890 A. J. Gordon Ecce Venit iii. iv. 218 This reanimation must mean a literal rising from the dead.
2006 K. Paffenroth Gospel of Living Dead i. 31 Authorities also demand the immediate burning of all dead bodies to prevent their reanimation [as zombies].
b. The fact or action of restoring to life. Also figurative.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [noun] > action of
reliving1536
revivification1561
reanimation1653
revivication1724
1653 tr. Math. Recreations (new ed.) cxviii. 255 How to practise excellently the reanimation of simples, in case the plants may not be transported to be replanted by reason of distance of places.
1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. x. 254 The Re-establishment of Navigation..had been a long while neglected... But the Grand Monarch, applying to their Re-animation, rendered his Kingdom as powerful by Sea as Land.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 26/1 Reanimation means the reviving or restoring to life those who are apparently dead.
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia (ed. 4) iii. v. 294 This, and not the reanimation of dead bodies that lie in the graves, is here asserted by the Apostle in most unequivocal language.
1889 J. Ruskin Præterita III. iv. 147 The first two of his great poems..are the re-animation of Border legends.
1917 G. S. Hall Jesus II. x. 633 The natural curiosity to know Lazarus' state of mind and his subsequent experiences after his reanimation.
1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 4 Mar. 4/8 A total of six human bodies have been frozen for possible later ‘reanimation’.
2000 J. T. Zeitlin in J. Donawerth & A. Seeff Crossing Boundaries i. 65 His amorous meeting with her ghost, and his reanimation of her corpse are closely intertwined.
2. Renewal of vigour or liveliness.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > spiritedness or liveliness > [noun] > renewal of liveliness
reanimation1711
1711 D. Manley True Narr. Exam. Marquis de Guiscard 29 Monsieur de Guiscard..there stopt, as if for Breath, a reanimation of Spirits, or to recollect what he had to say.
1797 Times 1 Feb. 3/4 The truly salutary action of discounting merchant's bills, to the reanimation of the commercial interest.
1833 F. B. Head Bubbles from Brunnen 4 The soot of London, being thus washed from my brow, I felt a re-animation of mind and a vigour of frame.
1892 Scribner's Mag. June 674 It seems as if in that profound stillness one could hear the murmur of the reanimation of things.
1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality xvi. 536 Attempts at reanimation and re-education of the chronically insane.
1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) iii. 84 So remote was the classical heritage that its use required strenuous recovery and reanimation.
2004 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 8 Jan. a5 His reanimation is a notable turnaround for Kerry, described last year as ‘depressive’ by one pollster.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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